What is a Licensed Horror Movie Killer you want to see the most?

I love Pennywise!! so my answer is easy. My second option would be Alien as it would be fun to have another actual monster in the game like Demo.

Definitely Xenomorph. That beast would be terrifying to face .. for at least the first few rounds.

The Xenomorph itself is honestly dead last in reasons why I'd want this property. Ripley as a survivor, a spaceship/space station as the map... those are the things I'd really want to see.

The Creeper doesn't deserve to be included in this, or any poll for that matter.

We support fictional monsters here in Dead By Daylight, not real ones.

I get that- and I know that the people who want the Creeper generally speaking aren't trying to support Victor Salva.

That being said, it's almost an "actions speak louder than words" situation and the potential inclusion of the Creeper straddles such an intensely grey line (dark grey I would say) that there really is no room to be vague about how we should treat those who indulge in such vile and immoral behavior.

Especially for a company like BHVR- you have to recognize that companies aren't people and they can't exactly vindicate and absolve themselves with mere words. Companies are judged by their actions and by their practice, that's why people intensely scrutinized BHVR for their potential involvement in some shady NFT business recently. Though as it turned out it was the license holders of Pinhead who did that, not BHVR. (The license agreement operates both ways: BHVR gets the rights to the character for their appearance in game- but the license holders also get to use the model that they create in BHVR for their own purposes).

I also just don't believe in this idea of "separating the art from the artist" or at the very least I believe such an idea is not all-encompassing and it holds far less weight than the people who take stock in it think it does. It directly infringes on this idea that nearly all creative works people make are in some way autobiographical- they say this most about writers. That putting pen to paper and the writing of a story is in itself an act of externalizing your personal collection of experiences and perceptions of the world, and thus all writing is influenced by it. Regardless of whether it's a conscious act or not, and such is the way of nearly any other artistic action: whether that's a painting, a sculpture, or a film.

So from this perspective, I find that the idea of "separating the art from the artist" is, in layman's terms: a huge heaping pile of horseshit.

As far as Jeepers Creepers goes, it's not hidden knowledge that there are some predatory sexual themes that exist within those films, and even within the art itself they are embedded within the story as an intrinsic and inseparable part of it. Such that you can easily draw the line between the film and its director clear as day.

I haven't seen the film myself, but I've discussed the topic multiple times and done the research to learn and now know that this is true. Here's how one article explains it (far better than I could) based off a closer look of Jeepers Creepers 2:

"Salva is something worse: a confessed child molester whose sick, damnable pathos infects his work. ... The story of a demonic, trenchcoated man-bat who sniffs out and devours selected victims, the film itself surrounds a high-school basketball team ... [and] a few flags go up when the mostly male-adolescent cast begins sunbathing, urinating in front of each other, and referring to themselves in song as 'the fighting cocks.' ... Salva has something more horrific in mind, and--as evinced in the opening scene of the film, in which the Creeper stalks, abducts and, as we later learn, mutilates and munches on a small child--Salva's work has developed a consistent theme of gratuitous sexual violence towards young boys.

... Forgive and forget? No. Not while Salva still clings to a depraved and disgusting celluloid fantasy. His scary films aside, the horrors that this man inflicted on a 12-year-old boy will haunt that victim forever"

As much as I want to end it off on that quote- I find myself needing to reiterate: The Creeper doesn't deserve to be in this, or any poll- neither the community at large nor the developers of the game, want the Creeper in any capacity.

A movie series about a monster ruined by a real life monster

First of all I picked it cause out looks like they put the lawsuit is over as the movie name and why are people writing essays

The Thing provides far more interesting gameplay, by giving the game a "TF2 Spy" dynamic. Look like the team's Nea until you get close then it splits apart into a body horror nightmare. Plus, it'd encourage teams to stay grouped up so they can't be deceived by an approaching team mate (which helps slow down the 'everybody on a gen' default rush strat)

As for the Alien... I feel like Twins was ORIGINALLY supposed to be a Xenomorph. You lay the egg, which spawns a Facehugger. The facehugger scrambles about rapidly and eventually pounces on the survivor. If they were already injured, it matures into a Chestburster, to down them and keep going.

But then, I'm also pretty sure the Artist was supposed to be a Candyman killer. She summons crows but they could've easily been bees. Sends them out to locate people and if they get hit once, they swarm. Hit twice and they start stinging like crazy. And bees can actually hover in place, unlike a flock of crows. Plus, her inky-arm is basically just the crowbar in the arm stump Candyman has.